PAT JULMISTE IS OUR QB! GET OVER IT!

[Bishop of Bulltown]

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[The_Reaper]

What Pat needs is recievers to hold on, time to throw, and to work work work on poise and passes. He get's too excited and panics. Face it, the kid is BIG, he has SPEED and runs with the ball well. (Only don't slide until you have the first down Pat!) CJL has said Hill is not READY! Unfortunately Denson just isn't able to carry the weight. pat just needs to get off the snide and cowboy up!

[bulls96go]

Carlton Hill doesnt know the WHOLE playbook yet...Or else Im sure he would get a shot

why does he need to know the whole playbook?

put his best 5 HS plays in and let the kid play.

mold the scheme to the talent you have!

[BULLheaded]

What Pat needs is recievers to hold on, time to throw, and to work work work on poise and passes. He get's too excited and panics. Face it, the kid is BIG, he has SPEED and runs with the ball well. (Only don't slide until you have the first down Pat!) CJL has said Hill is not READY! Unfortunately Denson just isn't able to carry the weight. pat just needs to get off the snide and cowboy up!

LOL, so ummmmm basically what your saying is we need to fix every aspect of the passing game. That about sums it up right?  ;D

[Paisa el Toro]

Face it, the kid is BIG, he has SPEED and runs with the ball well.

So then why don't we work more on the option offense during practices? Doesn't this make more sense considering PJ's and the WR's size and speed? It will alleviate having the WR's having to catch a **** ball or having PJ throw the **** ball. It will put the ball in playmakers' hands. We've run a few option plays this season, but it has always given me a heart attack because the players don't look comfortable running it. If we focused on an option style offense more in practice I think we could train the players to run it effectively. What do you all think?

[Bull94]

So then why don't we work more on the option offense during practices? Doesn't this make more sense considering PJ's and the WR's size and speed? It will alleviate having the WR's having to catch a **** ball or having PJ throw the **** ball. It will put the ball in playmakers' hands. We've run a few option plays this season, but it has always given me a heart attack because the players don't look comfortable running it. If we focused on an option style offense more in practice I think we could train the players to run it effectively. What do you all think?

How about the wing T option? PJ played this in high school. We have the talent in the backfield. Time to adjust the system to the players strengths. Pound the freakin ball.

PJ had 9 pass attempts in the UofL game. Seemed we were pretty successful then. How come we throw it 37 times against Pitt?? Andre's yards per carry was higher in the Pitt game and yet we give up on the run. Why not feed him the rock?

Pitt Game

37 pass attempts

47 rushing attempts

UofL Game

10 pass attempts

48 rushing attempts

Unless PJ is the one calling the plays then the blame lies elsewhere.

[Guest Guest - Bulls 1]

Because then you are one dimensional  If they know you are going to run most of the time then the safeties or corners will stack the box.  You must be successful at BOTH to set either one up.

[puc86]

Having success in one is better than trying to force success in the other. Teams are not respecting our pass and will still stack the box, no matter how many times we throw (now if we caught a few?) It did not take Miami long to realise no matter how we lined up the only thing they needed to defend was the run.

[Bull94]

Because then you are one dimensional  If they know you are going to run most of the time then the safeties or corners will stack the box.  You must be successful at BOTH to set either one up.

Not true at all. I bet Nebraska threw about 10 passes in the decade of the 90's but nobody could stop their run.

Teams should not try and force opponenents to defend their weakness. Make them stop your strength.

Sweeps, 2 TE sets, pound the ball. I bet Baltimore would have never won a Super Bowl if they had to rely on Dilfer's passing to set up the run.

Andre averaged over 4 ypc. 4 x 3 > 10. keep feeding him the ball. Run would eventually setup the deep play action pass.

I think PJ can throw a decent deep ball every now and again. His weakness' are these dink and dunk passes. Yet this is what we use to try and loosen a D!!! Those stupid passes do not stretch a defense they actually bring the safeties and corners up.

[Guest S.  Bien]

This is ridiculous.  PJ wouldn't be so bad if the offensive play calling, and decisions wasn't so piss poor.

How can we have coaches that feel the need to spot opponents TD's, and then call on the QB to bail them out.

I look at WVU, for the past four years they haven't had particularly good QB passers.  Yet they still run a spread, however they find ways to get their star athletes the ball, quick hitters inside, pitch outs, option, roll out/bootlegs.   On Saturday their QB's were 12-27 for 140 yards against UL, but they ran the ball 54 times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   They were down 17-0 to UL but didn't abandon their running game, or their great athletes.

We were down by 1 TD and then 2, and only ran Hall five times in the 2nd half.   WVU was down by 17 to a more prolific offense and ran Slaton 29 times in regulation, and 34 in the game.  We got down by two TD's and Smith wants to call the game like we're on a sandlot, "OK you receivers go out and get open, and PJ throw it to the open dude."  Sorry that's not PJ's forte, and nor is it the spread.  Notice how well PJ hit that slant pattern to Hall for the TD, that was an adjustment, a three step drop quick hitter.  Smith said he made that adjustment.  That's where Pat excels with set pass plays; plays where he knows the ball should go.  Our passing game is too antiquated and the receivers have no rhyme or reason when they're out on routes.

On our very first drive of the game, the announcer commented about this.  The first offensive play of the game PJ throws a nice 9 yard pass to Amarri Jackson.  THe first question is why did Amarri stop 9 yards out, every receiver is taught to run past the sticks except on timing routes, short curls, or crossing stuff.  BUT OK, it's the first play, jitters.  PJ's pass was right on the numbers but the DB tackled Jackson immediately.

Second play was an end around to, who else, Amarri Jackson.  The same play we scored on against UL, but guess what Pitt saw the video and tripped Amarri for a 4 yard loss.  Third play was a penalty on us, fourth play was a pass play on 3rd and 14, PJ throws a dart to Hester for 11 yards.  Immediately the announcer questioned why Hester stopped his route so much short of the 1st down marker, and then wondered why with five receivers out on pattern only one ran a route past the 1st down marker!

That's coaching.